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September, 2007
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August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen
Civil War Letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry

Translated and edited by Joseph R. Reinhart
(Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 262. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, index. $35.00.)

Joseph Reinhart has done an impressive job of translating, editing, and annotating sixty letters written by members of the 32nd Indiana Infantry, the state's "only German regiment" (p. 2) in the Civil War. Part of the Army of the Ohio, the 32nd fought at Rowlett's Station in Kentucky; Shiloh, Stones River, and Missionary Ridge in Tennesee; and Chickamauga in Georgia. Reinhart discovered these letters, most of them written between August 1861 and December 1863, in the German-language newspapers the Louisville Anzeiger, the Cincinnati Volksfreund, and the Indianapolis Freie Presse von Indiana. Reinhart also includes notices by the editors of the newspapers; chapter introductions with maps and photographs; an epilogue summarizing the life and death of the officers following the war; appendices on the "Original Officers and Color Sergeants"; a descriptive history of the 32nd Indiana Monument; a list of books containing Civil War letters and diaries by "Native Germans"; and a bibliographic essay. In his chapter introductions and fiftytwo pages of detailed notes, Reinhart provides information on battles, skirmishes, and marches; qualifies and corrects accounts of the numbers killed and injured on both sides; and gives an ongoing overview of the war as seen from the perspective of the men of the 32nd. . . .
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